Aficionado Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless in their stride as feathers falling. — Mollie Hunter

From that day forward she never used my name. Eventually I forgot it. Mrs. H called me something new. She named me cruel and smirking, she named me not for beauty or for cleverness or for sweetness. She named me a thing I could aspire to but never become, the one thing I was not and could never be: Snow White. — Catherynne M Valente

There's a reason they say,Pride goeth before a fall. — Richelle Mead

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pasteur, L. 1854. Chance favours only the prepared mind. — John M. Ziman

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you. — Natan Sharansky

The truth is often angry. — Tarryn Fisher

Do you know why the big brother is born first? It's to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling his sister, "I'll kill you" ... You never, ever say something like that. — Tite Kubo

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family. — Avi Arad

Mr. Young observed that life was a sad, sad thing - "because the joy of every new marriage a man contracted was so apt to be blighted by the inopportune funeral of a less recent bride. — Mark Twain

First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that site. At the moment, that developer lodges an application, there's usually trade-offs, negotiations, you end up with remnant bits of land. You might end up with some other offset land that the public has to run. There's no cohesive system of then making sure that we maintain and improve biodiversity values. — Frank Sartor

My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk. — Sandra Cisneros

Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges. — Piers Anthony

you can't use logic on human behavior. — Jeff Lindsay